The Pontifical Council for Culture touted its meetings as analyses of the status of the world’s 3.5 billion women…

The Pontifical Council for Culture seems to be the Vatican’s faculty of arts and letters. Like all Vatican councils and congregations, it is predominantly male. It includes 13 cardinals, 14 bishops and four “men of culture.” It has 35 consultors, including seven women. Its 16-person staff has male professionals and four female secretaries. It is headed by four clerics: a prefect, a delegate, a secretary and an undersecretary. Such is the crowd that set out to advise the pope on women

Think all these Vatican Men have figured out what to do about the church’s “woman” problem? Apparently they have…

From the Council’s working document: “There is no discussion here of women priests, which according to statistics is not something that women want.”